The Mayoral Primary Election; School Nutrition; Child Witnesses; Were the Neo-Conservatives right?
The Mayoral Primary Election
Larry checks in with KPCC reporters John Rabe and Rachael Myrow, and with KPCC listeners about their voting experiences, and about voter turnout in Los Angeles.
School Nutrition
In light of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comments about junk food in school vending machines, Larry discusses school nutrition. Should junk food in schools be banned? Larry talks with Lisa Katic, nutrition advisor for the Snack Food Association, and a registered dietician, and Harold Goldstein, Executive Director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.
Child Witnesses
The Michael Jackson trial brings up the issue of child testimony once again. USC law Professor and child testimony expert Tom Lyon joins Larry to discuss the issue.
Were the Neo-Conservatives right?
Were the neo-conservatives right in their approach to "spreading democracy" in the Middle East? Whatever the catalyst, there can be no doubt that change is afoot, with a real challenger to Mubarak in the next elections in Egypt, with Syria getting out of Lebanon, with democratic elections in the Palestinian Authority and limited municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, and an election in Iraq. Some writers are saying that the neo-conservatives were right in going into Iraq and in working for change in the Middle East. Larry Mantle talks with Bret Stephens, member of the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal and former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, Steven Cook, Next Generation Scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, Ahmed Younis, National Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Zvi Vapni, Deputy Consul General of Israel at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles.